Soapylove Tutorial: Cute as a Button Soaps

These adorable soaps are super easy – they would be perfect for a gift or to sell at a craft fair! All you need to know is how to layer glycerin soap. {Just spray with alcohol between layers and make sure your soap is no hotter than 120 degrees when you pour it onto a hardened layer. There! Now you know!} 🙂

To create the polka dots, melt 1 oz of clear soap base and color with pink colorant. Use pipette to place drops of soap in the mold and immediately rinse pipette with hot water.

To create “button holes”, pour a thin layer of soap into mold (I used clear soap colored with the white colorant), then place straws vertically into soap, ends standing on face of mold, and hold them steady until soap sets.

Proceed with layering in any color combination you like. All of the Sweet Treats Colorants are non-bleeding!

Once your soaps are hardened, unmold as usual (the straws make nice handles for pulling soaps out!). Then pull straws out from the back side. You can use a chopstick to clean or perfect the button holes if needed.

The holes are really cute as a little detail, plus they make it easy to stack into gift bundles. Just thread a ribbon through all holes and tie. Voila!

I LOVE these and will be making them soon! I already have the molds! Making the holes couldn’t be easier – I have leather punches that will easily penetrate the layers. You could even use them to make the polka dots in the white soap and then fill with the pink or yellow soap…………….just thinkin’!!!

Just give us a call at 360.734.8278 and ask to add to your order (#52763). I just looked at your order and as of right now, this second, I can add to the order (all bets are off in an hour though =))) but I need the 3 digit code from the back of your card. I’m sending this to Leah in Customer Service as well so she knows what’s going on too. =)

Cute as a Button! ~ Oh, you said that already 🙂Love them, what a great idea about the straws, I was wondering how those holes were so perfectly formed.So cute if you used a Low Sweat soap and coud just tie a ribbon through with a hang tag, no pacakging needed. Great Job Debbie!

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